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\ 63d Congress, [ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( Document 

/ U Session. j I No. 1137. 



RELIEF OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD. 



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MESSAGE 

FROM THE 



PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 

BECOMMENDING 

P^SAGE BY CONGRESS OF ACT MAKING APPROPRIATION EOR 
\ RELIEF OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, ETC. 



August 4, 1914. — Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to 

be printed. 



To the Senate and House of Representatives : 

After further consideration of the existing condition in Europe 
in so far as it is affecting citizens of the United States who are there 
without means, financial or otherwise, to return to their homes in 
this country, it seems incumbent upon the Government to take steps 
at once to provide adequate means by the chartering of vessels or 
otherwise of bringing Americans out of the disturbed region and 
conveying them to their homes in the United States. Moreover, in 
view of the difficulty of obtaining money upon letters of credit, with 
which most Americans abroad are supplied, it will be necessary to 
send agents abroad with funds which can be advanced on such evi- 
dences of credit, or used for the assistance of destitute citizens of the 
United States. 

In these circumstances I recommend the immediate passage by the 
Congress of an act appropriating $2,500,000, or so much thereof as 
may be necessary, to be placed at the disposal of the President, for 
the relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens and 
for personal services, rent, and other expenses which may be incurred 
in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, connected with, or growing 
out of, the existing disturbance in Europe. 

WooDRow Wilson. 

The White House, August Ji.^ 1911^.. 

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